We need a Generative AI Code of Conduct at the University level because it's becoming increasingly clear that my colleagues (other professors and ESPECIALLY admin) are using AI way more than my students are.

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

This is my view. On this issue, a lot of very smart people, many of whom are my friends, will “well actually” themselves into the grave.

Abolish “A.i.”

We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes

We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.

Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool

This seems relevant this morning www.printmag.com/type-tuesday...

I literally research “fontroversies” and I thought woke fonts would be a bridge too far even for these guys, but here we are

Klingon teenager: welcome to the OC b’Itch

"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup

it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago

🙏🙏🙏 Thanks to all helping to spread the word! 🙏🙏🙏

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Fuck the Democratic Party. Absolute 100% losers.

Cowards

Last year I fed my class pizza in exchange for a couple of hours talking about how they consume news. I was astounded at how common it was for them to distrust *everything.* The comment that still haunts me: a random redditor might be lying but the NYT is definitely lying (so reddit gets more trust)

Someone ought to run for president on a platform of outlawing Meta and sending Mark Zuckerberg to a supermax prison for his crimes against humanity

Pioneering new and exciting ways to use the word “unrecognizable”

I think we need to frame these moves as a deep betrayal of society itself. We need to keep a list, and when we have power again, these institutions need to be held accountable for what they’ve done

what stage of capitalism is this

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

I try not to get too worked up about politicians and candidates I can’t vote for — and Platner’s work for Blackwater should’ve been disqualifying even before the tattoo stuff came out — but I also can’t help but think this too. Can we trust his politics are sincere?

For the 100th time: if you traveled back in time to 2001 and told everyone randy Johnson was an extremely cool, normal guy, and curt schilling turned out to be the psychopath, I think you’d get laughed out the room

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"

Only Democrats have agency, despite the GOP controlling all of government

The media company that can figure out how to produce news or news adjacent video content without relying on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, broadcast TV, cable, or corporate streamers will make a billion dollars and probably help save American democracy — or exist long enough to document its end

I would add to this *stop using Meta products and X altogether.* You can’t fight fascism with the tools controlled by fascists.

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

An important difference between conservatism and liberalism these days is that “being shitty to people you disagree with” is an explicit, widely shared social value in conservatism but there’s no equivalent in liberalism. It’s just easier and more preferred for liberals to walk away

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

A great take on a serious problem that happens to feature a book by a high school classmate of mine

One thing I feel like everyone needs to understand: those social-democratic Scandinavian nations we're all jealous of? Their market economies are *less regulated* than ours. More free. It's just that they collect a lot of taxes on the back end & fund social services & infrastructure.

Hairshirt

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death. So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.